Re: ANNOUNCE: Souper version 1.6 beta 1

Chin Huang (cthuang@io.org)
Mon, 26 Aug 1996 23:23:30 -0400 (EDT)

> The only point I take care of is the number of news-groups, to reduce
> cross-posted articles. My actual KILL looks like:
>
> --------------- 8< cut here >8 ---------------
> all {
> Newsgroups [^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,.*
> }
> --------------- 8< cut here >8 ---------------

The equivalent score file is

all {
-1 pattern Newsgroups: [^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,
}

The keyword "pattern" indicates the rule tries to match a regular
expression instead of a literal string.